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After upgrading to OSX 10.15 Catalina, when playing BZFlag the fan on my late 2013 iMac would shift into overdrive. One sensor reported 191degrees F. A couple guys on IRC gave me the solution.

On the "display settings" panel, set "energy saver" to "vertical sync"

The newer configuration options have made it quite effective against the evolving tactics of those wishing to evade it's effects.

Unown: please answer the private message I have sent you.

Let me see if I can explain this in a way everyone can understand. If you simply add "passable" to your object you get an object that tanks and shots don't interact with. If that's what you want, then it's fine. If you have a high-poly object and you do want coldet interaction, now you need the invi...

if you have materials, they should be in a seoerate .mtl file. I always like to make a copy of modeltool and put it in the same folder as the diconf, and the obj file, and the .mtl file. That way I don't have to worry about paths. // comment lines should use this format, not # oh... and the wiki sho...

I had various models of the starship enterprise at 10,000, 25,000, 40,000, and 100,000 polygons.

That didn't work in my tests.

As I see it, here is the problem... BZ has no problem displaying high polygon counts. That's displaying them. It is collision detection (coldet) which greatly slows the client. Checking to see if each and every polygon has a bullet or tank hitting it is the cause of reduced frame rates. My solution ...

"a loaf of bread" check your private messages.

Uccio Taken Care of...

Also, there are warnings to those who pick up a teamflag with unfair teams.

Self-Capture of your own flag on the other base is now a variable. Self-Capture is now a thing, but I don't think that will last very long.

The plugin is working, but It will take a few days to perfect it.

The CTF flag capture bounties and the penalties for unfair teamflag capture were one of the original functions of the Apocalypse-In-Action plugin. Those parts of the APOC plugin have now been split off into a new plugin called CTF-Overseer. The new plugin has a configuration file which can be change...

It happens. The F12 detector does occasionally indicate false positives. Admins are not immune, It's even gotten me once. The auto-ban is not very long, but I have removed it. Only leave while dead, (die before leaving) and you are 100 percent safe. One thing though... the plugin remembers you, and ...

After six months of talking about it, and thanks to Allejo, we now have a change to Team-Flag-Genocide. It required a server mod that "finalizes" a player's death. You must be alive to collect genocide kills. This means: 1. When you fire a geno shot, but you die before that shot hits another player,...

The reason Gun-Game disappeared was a huge and insurmountable bug. We we using a technique of "Flag Zapping" where first we would take away the flag you had, and then zap the new flag to you. Because of packet loss, sometimes a flag would fail to reach the tank it was sent to. This would be extremel...

We are very pleased to announce PROgressive FLAG Passion is coming out of it's testing phase today. Pro Flag Server Plugin by Zehra. Right now I'm using it with the old Passion map, but I have a map in development specifically designed for this plugin. Game play a significant change from anything th...

It's a new method of getting the flags to players. Instead of using "flag give" to remove the flag they had and then give them their new flag (we called this "zapping" flags and many times flags would fail to arrive because of packet loss), there are many small zones where flags are placed, and play...

I you look at the date of the first post in this thread, you will understand there are going to be some changes.

Progressive Flag Mode has returned!
I figured out a way to do it that i thought would be bug free, no problems with lag causing missed flags.
Zehra made the plugin. It works!
We will do some final perfecting of the levels and bring it back in a few days.

will it fly back to that zone after every drop? not just drops over pyramids?

How do you get a team flag to spawn at a location other than on the base? after a capture, of course.

Purple Panzer does almost all of his work in Visual Basic. My advice to you would be, since you are familiar with BZEdit, use that to deign the overall shape and playability of the map, then use a 3D editor to apply eye candy. Using modeltool to convert obj to bzw (including drawinfo) is not difficu...

This goes reeeeeaaaaaaaaaly nice with Apple's new "dark mode" in Mojave.

It's running now on port 4201 Passion Map. Still testing. Gotta turn on Open-FFA, and other changes.

This is coming back, and it's going to work this time.